Game|Life Podcast: Sony’s Big Play for Indie Games

The Unfinished Swan is one of many intriguing indie-developed games coming to PlayStation 3 thanks to Sony's extensive Pub Fund initiative.Image courtesy Sony

Some of the most thought-provoking and original games on the E3 show floor were tucked away in a nearly hidden corner of the PlayStation booth.

Through its Pub Fund initiative, Sony is reaching out to indie game creators and giving them the development support they need to make their bold new ideas into more fleshed-out, commercially viable games. This in turn helps grow the PlayStation 3’s catalog of unique exclusive games. Coming out of E3, we were quite impressed with titles like The Unfinished Swan, Papo & Yo and Dyad.

On today’s Game|Life podcast, Wired senior editor Chris Baker and I sit down with Jack Buser, the head of Sony’s digital games business, to quiz him about how Sony finds these games and how it works with developers to finish them as PlayStation 3 titles.

The full cast, including Wired senior editor Peter Rubin and managing editor Marty Cortinas, joins us in the opening and closing segments of the show to discuss what we’ve been playing recently and to answer your questions. You can ask us things or yell at us by leaving a text message or a voicemail at (567) 694-5326 — that’s 56 POW! GL FAN.

Game|Life’s podcast is posted on Fridays, is available on iTunes, can be downloaded directly and is embedded below.